Open the first workbook any way you want.

Start a second instance of excel.
either put a shortcut to excel.exe on your desktop and use that
or
windows start button|run
type:
excel
and hit enter

Then file|open the second workbook.

Bruce wrote:

In Word, you can open 2 documents that act as completely separate programs,
being allowed to more one to a second display, etc. In Excel, how do you do
that? I don't want to have 2 files open inside of Excel, but I want to have
two totally separate instances of Excel open. Please help?!

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Dave Peterson